Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Mistral Small 3.2
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.3 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 131.74 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 30.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.